--Aren’t we living a happy life?
--You should not be content with what you have. _______, you must be better in every aspect of your life.
A．What’s more B．On the one hand
C．In other words D．Believe it or not
Noticing small changes early helps you _______ some big changes that are to come.
A．adapt to B．adopt to C．apply to D．devote to
You should exercise more, and you see you’re already out of ________ breath after completing such _______ small task.
A．a; the B．the; a C．/; a D．/; the
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil (锡纸), Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have discovered a recording of the human voice which is nearly two ___1.___earlier than Edison's invention of the phonograph.
The 10-second recording of a singer crooning (轻声歌唱) the folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" was discovered earlier this month in an ___2.___ in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds ___3.___, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable---converted from squiggles (潦草的字迹) on paper to sound---by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"This is a ___4.___find, the earliest known recording of sound," said Samuel Brylawski, the former head of the recorded-sound division of the Library of Congress, who is not ___5.___with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. The audio discovery could give new ___6.___ to the phonautograph, and its inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter who went to his grave ___7.___that credit for his breakthroughs had been ___8.___bestowed on Edison.
The recordings made by Scott were not intended for listening; the idea of audio ___9.__ had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be___10.___.
翻译句子（共 6小题；每小题 3 分，满分18分）
福建与台湾隔台湾海峡（the Taiwan Strait）相望。（face, across）
从面积方面来说，中国是第三大国家。（term词组）
这个公司占地50平方公里。（cover）
如果你继续偷东西，最终会被投入监狱。(end)
那个蓝色眼睛的男孩是我弟弟。（whose）
虽然很伤心，她设法抑制住了泪水。（hold词组）
单词拼写（共 12小题；每小题 1 分，满分12分）
1.His father is an a______ so he is always busy with designing buildings.
2.We s_____, although others died in the disaster.
3.There are many _____(古代的) buildings in Rome.
4.It’s ______(绝对的) impossible for them to finish the task in just one day’s time.
5.She is c_______ about her son’s future.
6.The room _____(测量) five meters across.
7.You’d better stop a_____ with Bill because he will never change his mind.
8.Teaching him Greek was a painful _____(过程).
9.The street was ____(拥挤的) with people and the traffic was held up.
10.The flat can a_____ a family of five.
11.Now, there is no library in our school, but it will be under _____ (建设) in a month.
12.S_____ in the center of the city, the shopping mall is full of people even on weekdays.
